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[me] Comcast’s mail servers were hacked on February 5. The hacker group NullCrew FTS posted the details of their exploit on Pastebin, along with a list of Comcast’s mail servers, for 24 hours. During that time, Comcast reportedly didn’t tell customers. At least 34 of their servers were breached, according to reports. That enabled any hacker to have their way with the mail servers. And, in fact, users reported slowdowns, crashes and other problems during that time.

* Comcast customers have not been told to change passwords, but they should

* Unclear whether any data stolen

* Initial reports were that passwords were stolen, but there’s no evidence

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[me] A startup called Ringblingz this morning is unveiling a wearable computing device for teenagers. Ringblingz is a ring that connects to a smartphone with Bluetooth Low Energy. It also comes with an iOS or Android app. Users can customize the color and pattern of blinking lights on the ring to show notifications and other information.

[sl] Over the weekend, the developer of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen tweeted that he'd be removing the game from the App Store. Flappy Bird has been the number one downloaded free app on App Store for almost a month. and was averaging $50,000/day in revenue from in-app ads. Well, today's the day - Flappy Bird no longer shows up in search, developer's app listing, and Top Free games.

* Search ads: little more than one-third of Yahoo's revenue, rose 8% to $461 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, after payouts to Microsoft.

* In December, Yahoo claimed 10.8% of the search market, compared with Google's 67.3% and Microsoft's 18.2%, according to comScore.

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[sl] ASUS's VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet with support for Wacom pen input, has gone live in Microsoft's US store- the 32GB model anyway- for $329, which is a little higher than the $299 price tag it had when shown off at CES. But do you even have room in your heart for a tablet? Zal Bilimoria, a partner at venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz wrote in an opinion piece published by Re/code over the weekend that consumers are losing interest in tablets all together.

- only 12 percent of tablets have cellular connections, instantly making them non-mobile devices- At Netflix, we witnessed a dramatic increase in phone usage for the streaming service — all that binge-watching of “Sons of Anarchy” and “House of Cards.” The reason was obvious: As phone apps improved in terms of quality and speed, users abandoned their tablets for the device in their pocket that could access the Web anywhere and anytime from Wi-Fi or cellular connections.

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[me] The United Arab Emirates government plans to test flying drones to deliver packages. Here’s the crazy part: The drones will feature retina scanners and fingerprint readers to authenticate people accepting packages, according to Reuters.

[me] We said in a recent show that the restaurant reservation service OpenTable is no longer supported by Apple's Siri. But a viewer named Jacob points out that OpenTable was added back to Siri more than a year ago.

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[sl] Flappy Bird is dead and gone, but don’t worry: Flappy Doge can fiill the void in your life. Flappy Doge is a browser game that plays exactly like Flappy Bird, but with the digital currency world’s favorite shiba. It’s also free and has no ads.

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